Organizing Schools for Productive Learning

✍ Scribed by Shlomo Sharan, Ivy Geok Chin Tan (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 117
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book offers an alternative approach to secondary school organization. In line with the definition formulated by John Dewey's philosophy of education, the new approach aims to promote productive learning. The book shows the way to extricate schools from their past in order to respond more successfully to the requirements of the information age in which we are living today.

The chapters treat the primary components of teachers' work in schools in light of systems' theory as opposed to the organization of instruction prevalent in today's schools that is designed in light of bureaucratic theory. The book demonstrates how the current principles of organization impede the change and improvement of instruction and by necessity create boredom and the routinization of teachers' and students' activity in schools.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Two Models of School Structure....Pages 9-26
The School as a Community; The School in the Community....Pages 27-40
Student Engagement in Learning....Pages 41-45
Class Size and School Size....Pages 47-55
The Integrated Curriculum....Pages 57-65
Duration of Class Sessions and the Problem of Teaching Method....Pages 67-75
Student Assessment....Pages 77-84
A Systems Approach to Organization and Instruction in Schools....Pages 85-90
Back Matter....Pages 91-111

✦ Subjects

Learning & Instruction; Administration, Organization and Leadership